Richard Hamilton

In the last of the series, painter Richard Hamilton, the father of Pop Art in Britain, explores the workings of the Quantel Paintbox. Since the 50s he has often drawn his inspiration from press photographs, magazines, adverts and television. A television news item about the blanket protesters in Northern Ireland was the starting point for his picture The Citizen that now hangs in the Tate Gallery. In tonight's programme he uses the Paintbox to work on his ideas for a companion painting, an emblem of the Protestant Orange Order in Northern Ireland.